As a user and occasional bug reporter, I welcome the change. Searching for existing issues in JIRA was painful, mostly due to feeling like I had to repeat myself in saying that I wasn't interested in any of the other projects on the instance.
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Jan Lehnardt <m...@jan.io> wrote: > \o\ /o/ \o/ <3 > >> On 17. May 2017, at 21:38, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone. >> >> As most of you know, a few months ago we moved many of our primary >> repositories from primary Apache hosting to primary GitHub hosting. A >> major reason we did so was to leverage the better user experience of >> GitHub, especially for community interaction. >> >> It's now time for us to move from JIRA to GitHub Issues. Here's how: >> >> 0. The community reviews and approves this change. As a non-technical >> decision, our bylaws say that no formal vote is required, only a >> lazy majority from committers with 72 hours notice. That said, >> I'd like to ensure broad support for this change, so even if >> you're not a committer, please reply to this email with any >> comments. >> >> 1. Approve pull requests to update our issue and pull request templates >> and add a CONTRIBUTING.md file to our primary repositories: >> >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/527 >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-docker/pull/15 >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/132 >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-fauxton/pull/925 >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-nano/pull/44 >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-pkg/pull/5 >> >> 2. Approve pull requests to update our webpage and documentation to >> point to GitHub apache/couchdb for issue reporting: >> >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/133 >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-www/pull/23 >> >> 3. Start using GH Issues for all new issues. At the same time, any >> committers who have completed the account integration process >> (see the new CONTRIBUTING.md file for details) should start >> labeling their issues and pull requests with the new scheme. >> The label scheme is here: >> >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/499 >> >> A reminder to committers - this means PRs don't need a JIRA ticket! >> And because PRs are just a special kind of GH Issue, there's no need >> to create a separate issue unless you want to. (Don't forget the >> labels!) >> >> 4. Start moving selected issues over from JIRA. At this point, only >> actively worked issues should be moved over. When developers pick >> up a new task from JIRA, they should create a companion GH Issue >> for the ticket and reference it in JIRA, then close the JIRA issue. >> >> 5. In the future, we will work to migrate more issues as desired. >> However, we won't be moving any 1.x-specific issues over to GitHub. >> >> At some point in the future, we will also consider: >> >> * A script to de-assign idle issues (and de-tag them if necessary) >> * A script to auto-repost new issues from JIRA into GH Issues. (We >> can't disable new issue creation in JIRA without shutting down >> the entire instance, and we don't want to do that.) >> >> This is perhaps the happiest email I've sent to any CouchDB mailing list >> ever. I'm really excited about this change, and I bet you are too! >> >> Thanks to everyone who's helped us get this far, especially Apache >> Infrastructure for the Gitbox integration workflow. >> >> -Joan
